Can-top reshaper.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN H. HITOHCOCK, OF LUDINGTON, MIOHIGAN.

CAN-TOP RESHAPER.

SPECIFIGA'J?I01\1' forming` part of Letters Patent No. 672,063, dated April 16, 1901. Application filed August 4, 1899. Serial No. 726,190. (No model.)

To ctlZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN H. HIToHcooK, ta citizen of the United States, residing at Ludington, in the county of Mason and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Can-Top Reshapers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to devices for repairing or reshaping jar or can covers and Similar articles. Its object is to provide a simple household article which can be used underany circumstances and by either skilled or unskilled hands; and it consists, essentially, of a male die or anvil for receiving or sustaining a `jar or can cover or other similar article and a female die or hammer adapted to be struck to effect the reshaping of the article under treatment.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a side elevation with the parts separated. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section with the parts in Operation, and Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the hammer or female die.

1 represents an anvil or male die, which is preferablyhollow and of metal. It has a reduced upper portion 2, having a curved or incliued outer wall.

3 represents a hammer or female die comprising in the preferable form here illustrated a Ping 4 and a central web or arch 5, bearing'.

a post or pin 6. The ring 4 has a beveled face 7 and is adapted to surround and embrace the anvil or male die, its outer periphery being substantially in a line with the outer periphery of the anvil.

At 8 I have indicated a jar -or can cover in place for treatment to spread out the bentup portions or irregularities indicated at 9.

These irregularities or bends are of the commonest occurrence in the ordinary cover and similar articles. When it is desired to reshape or repair such a cover, it is placed over the anvil 1, the reduced portion 2 forming an inclined face for the cover, and the hammer 3 is then placed over the cover, its beveled bottom resting on the lower edge of the cover. The hammer is then struck on the post 6 by any suitable tool, With the result that the whole lower edge of the cover is evenly-spread out on the anvil. By this simple device a jaror can cover or a similar article may be given a uniform lower edge Without the necessity of any skilled labor and in the quickest and most efficient manner.

It is obvious that many modifications not involving invention may be made in the shape, size, form, or material of my in vention without departing from the principle thereof.

What I desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 'The combination of an anvil or male die with a reduced top forming an inclined base to support the cover for jars, cans, &c., and a female die having ahammer-face and a ring to snrround the inclined base, the sides of the ring being free of the reduced top and its base corresponding in shape to the foot of the inclined base of the anvil or male die, so

that the bottom edge of the cover may be held MARTIN H. HITCHCOOK.

Witnesses:

J oHN Q. HIToHcocK, GHARLES FALKEL. 

